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Major obsession: Kate Winslet

Hope

 

Obsessed with food when was child. Loved any book that had food in it: Hansel and Gretel, Great Expectations....Loved examining people's lunch-boxes.

Obsessed with human body age 10/11. Took loads of notes in class.

THen obsessed in Titanic, every detail.

Titanic film. Watched it over 30 times, learnt screenplay off by heart, constantly acted it out.

Actress Kate Winslet, after seeing Titanic film. Saw all her films over and over again, watched all her interviews, collected all her pictures. Got VERY upset if missed anything to do with her. She was my life

 

Babies, child development after Winslet had child. Took notes on every baby I saw. Read parenting magazines, kept toys that came in mags and listened to nursury rhymes over and over

Autism, read all the books

Psychiatry, mental hospitals, Lacanian pschoanalysis-in that order.

Currently, my interests change very regularly, for some reason. It was tea, then vitamins, then chaos theory. Presently, I don't know!

  • I agree . . having an obsession can really be therapeutic

    like garlic keeping vampires away

  • Whe I was obsessed with the actress Kate Winslet, I could literally think about nothing else. My every thought was taken up with Winslet. I thought about her life, what she might be doing at any particular moment, and everything around me I connected to Winslet. I tried to see the world as Winslet might see it or how I thought she might see it. Whenever Winslet appeared on TV, I became so excited that it was almost like I was on drugs. It is difficult to put into words how happy I felt. The world had no meaning in it apart from Winslet. If there ever was an extreme interest, then I don't think you could get much more extreme than this obsession. Yet, I kept my obsession quiet when I was at school because I did feel slightly embarrassed by it. I secretly looked at pictures of Winslet in class, and I learnt thinks in class through the lens of Winslet. Numbers in maths, for instance, were connected in my mind to Winslet's chronology. This was the only way that I could get engaged with a subject.

    At home, I talked about Winslet all the time. My parents came to be experts in the subject too, because I quizzed them on Winslet by asking them questions: when was Winslet born?, what did she eat at her wedding?, what is her favourite colour?, how many siblings does she have?, when was 'Heavenly Creatures' filmed and where?, and so on. THe same questioning occurred with my simultaneous obsession with babies. I knew everything there is to know about pregancy, birth and child development. When my Aunty had a baby (8 years ago), I went to visit her when the baby was 4 weeks old. When the health visitor visited, I asked the health visitor loads of questions, so many that my Aunty could not really ask her own questions!.

     

    I do not have an obsessive interest at the moment. I would like to have another interest though, because it when I had obsessive interests I was not quite so anxious as I am now. The interests made my life feel more secure and well ordered.